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Saving The UNIX HUMOR Legacy?

Posted by Cliff on from the resurrecting-a-net.laugh dept.

belbo asks: "To my utter dismay I've discovered that the great UNIX HUMOR archive has vanished from its rather obscure home at Geocities. UNIX HUMOR has been quite a vast archive of UNIX related humor from various decades (e.g. some -long- threads from a.r.s) It's not only been funny but has also been a great introduction into the UNIX way of thinking, laughing and solving problems. So, after much unsuccessful searching via Google and its cache, I want to ask the Slashdot community: does anyone run a mirror of this archive? Or has a tarball of it? I would love to host it on my server." Has this resource been moved to a new official site? If not, looks like you have one offer for a new home.

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  1. Some links by forsetti · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I've never seen THE Unix Humor archive, but here is a link:
    http://www.geek-girl.com/unix.html
    Scroll to the bottom - there is a unix humor section. Hope that helps!

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  2. You lack initiative by Yarn · · Score: 5, Informative

    Try the wayback machine

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    1. Re:You lack initiative by JabberWokky · · Score: 2
      Of course, only the page of *links* is there, none of the actual humor pieces. *Sigh*.

      But, at least you might track down the old webmaster from that.

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    2. Re:You lack initiative by 42forty-two42 · · Score: 2, Informative

      They are there if you have javascript.

  3. a little OT, but a great place for unix humor by b-side.org · · Score: 2, Interesting

    you gotta wade through the cock jokes, but every few days jerkcity has some truly nerdy unix humor. examples here and here.

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  4. Unix Humor, and where to find it. by AnalogBoy · · Score: 3, Informative

    Install Linux.

    Seriously, the wayback machine(when it functions properly) is great for things like this. The link to its latest edition is here

    Enjoy your mirroring experience.

    1. Re:Unix Humor, and where to find it. by AnalogBoy · · Score: 2

      Actually, the link I gave, works.. I just confirmed it.. didn't visit all the jokes, just some.. but they worked.

  5. Re:a.s.r by __past__ · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Well, quite a lot of dasr appears in de.alt.netdigest. But everything but the original is definitly !recovery.

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  6. Other Sources... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    There's a lot of old UNIX humor at:
    http://www.textfiles.com/humor/COMPUTER

  7. Re:Here it is by damiam · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually, Google is still your friend.

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  8. But is it worth saving? by nosferatu-man · · Score: 3, Funny

    % make sense
    make: don't know how to make sense. Stop

    Perhaps the world would be better off if these "gems" were forgotten?

    Peace,
    (jfb)

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  9. Ask the BofH by ader · · Score: 2, Interesting

    BOFHweb has a lot of archived a.s.r material (and a lot of macho bragging about killing lusers in various creative and entirely improbably ways - you just know these guys wouldn't even dare to complain at McD's).

    Ade_
    /

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    1. Re:Ask the BofH by RedWizzard · · Score: 2

      Simon Travaglia (who came up with the BOFH) was a Unix admin at the university I went to when I was there. He wasn't unusually grumpy for a Unix admin.

  10. Re:Here it is by pne · · Score: 2

    Not that any of the links on this page seem to work...

    <pointer mode="parrot">They are there if you have javascript.</pointer> The page uses JavaScript to replace URLs in HREFs with URLs that run through the Wayback machine. Alternatively, you can copy the URL to the clipboard and paste it into the Location bar after the Wayback machine URL start. Or use "G" with lynx to modify the current URL and go to the resulting page.

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